In article <5uij36$5d2 at smc.vnet.net>, Al Arduengo <exal at texas.net> wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I am trying to utilize Mma 3.0 in my Image Processing course and have
> run into a bit of a snag. It seems that it can DISPLAY many forms of
> graphics, but I wish to be able to, say, import a 8-bit grayscale *.gif
> file into mma as a matrix of grayscale values. The same would apply to
> jpeg, tiff, and bmp files as well. Has anyone done this or is there a
> kind soul who could shed some light on this subject for me? Thanks in
> advance.
>
There's a kludgy but effective example in the Wavelet Explorer tutorials,
if I recall correctly from awhile back.
My primary reason for replying to this post is to enter a vote (a plea)
for WRI to lower some of the many barriers between its own graphics
world and the much larger graphical world around it. Certainly a
"DeBabelizer" package would be an obvious first step. Also, I noticed
that WRI was not an exhibitor at Siggraph '97.
Stu Schaffner,
not speaking for The MITRE Corp.
sch at mitre.org